Jackson County, Missouri - Chapter 3: Indian Treaty of 1825, 1920

Chapter 3: Indian Treaty of 1825

.MAl)i-: AT ST, L.OUIS - USAGES CEDE ALE THEIR LANES WEST OP LANDS CEDED IN 1808 - WILLIAM CLARK COMMISSIONED TO MAKE TREATY WITH OSAGE INDIANS - TEXT OF TREATY - SIGNED BY CHIEFS AND WARRIORS OF GREAT AND LITTLE USAGES - LANDS SURVEYED TO WESTERN BOUNDARY OP STATES.

In 1825 the Government entered into another treaty with the Osage Indians, in which the Indians ceded all their land extending west of their former boundary to the Government, which treaty was in words and figures as follows:

Articles of a treaty made and concluded at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, between William Clark, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Com¬ missioned, on the part of the United States, and the undersigned chiefs, head-men and warriors of the Great and Little Osage Tribes of Indians, duly authorized and by their respective tribes or nations.

The Great and Little Osage tribes or nations do hereby cede and relin¬ quish to the United States, all their right, title, interest and claim to lands lying within the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas, and to all lands lying west of the said State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas, north and west of the Red River, south of the Kansas River, and east of a line to be drawn from the head sources of the Kansas, southwardly through the Rock Saline, with such reservations, for such considerations and upon such terms as are hereinafter specified, expressed and provided

Article 11

Within the limits of the country, above ceded and relinquished, there shall be reserved to, and for, the Great and Little Osage Tribes, or Na¬ tions, aforesaid, so long as they may choose to occupy the same, the fol¬ lowing described tract of land : Beginning at a point due east of White Hairs village, and twenty-five miles west of the western boundary line of the State of Missouri fronting on a north and south line so as to leave ten miles north, and forty miles south of the point of said beginning, and ex¬ tending west, with the width of fifty miles, to the western boundary of the lands hereby ceded and relinquished by said tribes or nations , which said reservations shall be surveyed and marked, at the expense of the United States, and upon which, the agent for the said tribes or nations, and all persons attached to said agency as, also, such teachers and instruc¬ tors as the President may think proper to authorize and permit, shall re¬ side, and shall occupy and cultivate, without interruption or molestation, such lands, as may be necessary for them. And the United States, do hereby, reserve to themselves, forever, the right of navigating, freely all water courses and navigable streams, within or running through, the tract of country above reserved to said tribes or nations.

Article Iii

In consideration of the cession and relinquishment, aforesaid, the United States, do hereby agree to pay to the said tribes or nations, yearly, and every year, for twenty years, from the date of these presents, the sum of Seven Thousand Dollars, at their village or at St. Louis, as the tribes or nations may desire, either in money, merchandise, provisions or domestic animals, at their option. And whenever the said annuity, or any part thereof, shall be paid in merchandise, the same is to be de¬ livered to them at first cost of the goods at St. Louis, free of trans¬ portation.

Article Iv

to the tribe or nations aforesaid, six hundred head of cattle, six hundred hogs, one thousand domestic fowls, ten yoke of oxen, and six carts, with such farming utensils as the superintendent of Indian Affairs may think necessary, and shall employ such persons, to aid them in their agricultural pursuits, as to the President of the United States may seem expedient, and shall, also, provide, furnish and support, for them one blacksmith, that their farming utensils tools and arms, may be reasonably repaired; and shall build for each of the four principal chiefs, at their respective vil¬ lages, a comfortable dwelling house.

Article

From the above lands ceded and relinquished, the following reserva¬ tions, for the use of half-breeds, hereafter named, shall be made, to- wit:

One section, or Six Hundred and Forty acres, for Augustus Cleremont, to be located and laid off so as to include Joseph Rivars residence, on the east side of the Neosho, a short distance above the Grand Saline, and not nearer than within one mile through, one section for each of the following half-breeds, James, Paul, Henry, Rosalie, Anthony, and Amelia, the daughters of Mi-hun-ga, to be located two miles below the Grand Saline, and extending down the Neosho, on the east side thereof and one section for Noel Mangrain, the son of Wa-taw-nagnes, and for each of his ten children, Baptiste, Noel, Francis, Joseph, Mangrain, Louis, Victoria, Sophia, Julia and Juliet; and the like quantity for each of the following named grand-children, of the said Noel Mangrain, to-wit: Charles, Fran¬ cis, Louisson and Wash., to commence on the Marias des Cygnes, where the western boundary line of the State of Missouri crosses it at the fork of Missouri River, and to extend up Missouri River, for quantity; one section for Mary Williams and one for Sarah Williams, to be located on the north side of the Marias des Cygnes, at the Rouble Creek, above Har¬ mony ; another section for Francis T. Chardon ; one section for Francis C. Tauon ; one section for James G. Chouteau, one section for Alexander Chouteau, and one section for Pelagie Antoya ; one section for Celeste Antoya; one section for Joseph Antoya; one section for Baptiste St. Mitchells, Jr.; one section for Louis St. Mitchells; one section for Vic¬ toria St. Mitchells; one section for Julian St. Mitchells; one section for Frances St. Mitchells; one section for Joseph Perra; one section for Susan Larine;*one section for Marguerite Roman; one section for Thomas L. Balis ; one section for Terese, the daughter of Paul Louise ; which said several tracts are to be located on the north side of the Marias des Cygnes,

Article Vi

And also fifty other tracts of a square mile each, to be laid off under the directions of the President of the United States, and sold, for the pur¬ pose of raising a fund to be applied to the support of schools, for the edu¬ cation of the Osage children, in such manner as the President may deem most advisable, to the attainment of that end.

Article Vii

For as much as there is a debt due from sundry individuals of the Osage tribes or nations, to the United States trading house, of the Mis¬ souri and Osage rivers, amounting in the whole, to about the sum of Four Thousand One Hundred and Five Dollars and eighty cents, which the United States do hereby agree to release; in consideration thereof, the said tribes or nations, do hereby release and relinquish their claims upon the United States, for regular troops to be stationed, for their pro¬ tection, in garrisons, at Fort Clark, and, also, for furnishing of a black¬ smith at that place, and the delivery of merchandise at Fire Prairie, as is provided for in the first, third and fifth articles of the treaty, concluded on the tenth day of November One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight.

Article Viii

It appearing that the Delaware nation have various claims against the Osage which the latter have not had it in their power to adjust, and the United States, being desirous to settle, finally and satisfactorily all demands and differences, between the Delaware and Osages, do hereby agree to pay to the Delawares, in full satisfactioU, all their claims and demands against the Osages, the sum of One Thousand Dollars.

Article Ix

With a view to quiet the animosities which at present exist between a portion of the citizens of Missouri, and Arkansas, and the Osage tribes, in consequence of the lawless depredations of the latter, the United States, do furthermore, agree to pay, to their own citizens, the full value of such property, as they can legally prove to have been stolen or destroyed by the Osages, since the year Eighteen Hundred and Eight, and for which payment has not been made, under former treaties ; Provided, the sum to be paid to the United States does not exceed the sum of Five Thousand Dollars.

It is furthermore agreed on, by and between the parties to these presents that there shall be reserved two sections of land to include the Harmony Missionary establishment, and their mill on the Marias des Cygnes; and one section to include the Missionary establishment above the Lfick on the west side of Grand River, to be disposed of as the Presi¬ dent of the United States shall direct for the benefit of said Missions, and to establish them at the principal villages of the Great and Little Osage nations, within the limits of the country reserved to them by this treaty, and to be kept up at said villages, so long as said missions shall be usefully employed in teaching, civilizing and improving the said Indians.

Article Xl

To preserve and perpetuate the friendship now happily subsisting between the United States and the said tribes or nations it is hereby agreed, that the provisions contained in the ninth article of the treaty concluded and signed at Fort Clark on the 10th day of November, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight, between the United States and the said tribes or nations, shall in every respect be considered as in full force and applicable to the provisions of this treaty, and that the United States shall take and receive into their friendship and protection, the aforesaid tribes or nations, and shall guaranty to them forever, the right, to navi¬ gate, freely, all water courses, or navigable streams, within the tract of country hereby ceded, upon such terms as the same are or may be navi¬ gated by the citizens of the United States.

Article Xii

It is further agreed that there shall be delivered as soon as may be after the execution of this treaty, at the Osage villages, merchandise to the amount of Four Thousand Dollars, first cost, in St. Louis, and Two Thousand Dollars in merchandise, before their departure from this place, and horses and equippage to the value of Twenty-six Hundred Dollars; w^hich together with the sum of One Hundred Dollars, to be paid to Paul Laise, and the like sum to Baptiste Mangrain, in money, shall be in addi-

Article Xiii

Whereas, the Great and Little Osage tribes or nations, are indebted to Augustus P. Chouteau, Paul Balls and William S. Williams, to a large amount, for credit given to them, which they are unable to pay, and have particularly requested to have paid, or provided for, in the present nego¬ tiation; it is thereupon agreed on, by and between the parties to these presents, that the United States shall pay to Augustus P. Chouteau, One Thousand Dollars, to Paul Balls, Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, and to William S. Williams, Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, toward the liquida¬ tion of their respective debts due from the said tribes or nations.

Article Xiv

These articles shall take effect and become obligatory on the con¬ tracting parties as soon as the same shall be ratified by the President by and with the advise and covenant of the Senate of the United States.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the said William Clark, Commissioner as aforesaid, and the deputation chiefs, and head men, and warriors of the Great and Little Osage nations of Indians, as aforesaid, have hereunto set their hands and seals this second day of June, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-five, and of the Independence

Little Osages

Antonio LeClaine, Interpreter James Coleman Paul Louisa, his X mark Interpreter Osages William Melburne Noel Dashney, Interpreter Manchangachan, his X mark Thepogrenque, his X mark

In September, A. D. 1826, surveyors commenced surveying all the lands lying west of the former surveyed land and going as far as the western boundary of the State.